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how's Dart for back end development? is anybody using it to build APIs? the syntax doesn't look too bad
Are Flutter and React Native still viable choices today? I get the impression that more are going for native mobile, KMP or PWA.
Are Flutter and React Native still viable choices today? I get the impression that more are going for native mobile, KMP or PWA.
Flutter: if you want a pixel perfect version of your app that looks similar on Android and iOS. Some quite popular apps use it and make a shit ton of money, for example Headspace. More here: https://flutterhunt.com/ React Native: totally viable, because core business logic is the same. If you want native UI elements and all the iOS Liquid Glass stuff, but don’t want to have to completely separate code based, React Na…
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> I just hate most things around Android.
and yet you say
> React Native: totally viable
It's just strange someone "hating things about Android" and then is "totally viable" about things react native. This must be some "personal" sort of hatred. I am saying this as someone who has always struggled and cursed the toolings around Android and then started appreciating it once I had to deal with "xcode world" and things "web dev". React native? That was another level of nightmare relatively speaking from development perspective.
Are Flutter and React Native still viable choices today? I get the impression that more are going for native mobile, KMP or PWA.
KMP I guess missed the ship and that ship has sailed quite deep into the ocean now. PWA won't be a choice anymore except for the "niche" usage.
React Native? I guess there will be use cases for this (at least for a while) as it is deeply entrenched into too many apps and many of those are very famous apps. Besides there's always been automasochism for the reason to pick react native.. so that's there :D
I will also expect native to pickup now (unless we only see single person tech teams now) because of AI. I mean as LLMs started getting better at coding my first thought as a native dev was - hah, hopefully people won't have to deal with such monstrosities in even small teams now.
Also, not having to see a package.json with a trillion entries (and counting) alone can put all these choices above RN for me.
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They might have been using Redux before it did a major API change in the form of slices.
That would be about 7 years ago, when Redux Toolkit released in 2019.
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Been using it for six years with fairly high success: https://stockevents.app
That’s awesome how has the experience been between shipping for both iOS and Android. Gonna check out the app
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For production you may consider using dart VM also since it benefits from AOT and can actually be faster than a binary after it gets hot, similar to Java.
No, we (Dart team) recommend to deploy everything in AOT mode. JIT mode is only for development, and its performance has not been a priority for a while now.
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That’s awesome how has the experience been between shipping for both iOS and Android. Gonna check out the app
Thank you! It's been an excellent experience over the years really. Always easy to ship and always easy to keep up with flutter improvements which have come consistently.
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This is fixed in the past few versions of Flutter, they likely haven't updated their SDK.
If that's the case I might reappraise flutter!
While I've used Flutter since Alpha, I've been away for a few years. A few things have shocked me in these release notes: how come Impeller still wasn't the default engine for all platforms? Also, why are they migrating to WASM if one of the core features of Dart is compiling to JavaScript? Finally, how come multi window support only get viable now, after four years having desktop support? Honestly, Flutter is an ext…
We've been hearing that Flutter is going to be killed any day now for almost a decade. And yet here we are, it's a stable platform that's quietly chugging along with massive 3rd party buy in. Honestly, Google could abandon it at this point and it would have enough momentum to keep going just fine. Where is Compose Multiplatform? Does anyone actually use that, is it even stable yet?